

'Kim', a prequel to '97 Bonnie and Clyde' is a shout-rapped enactment of domestic violence so real it chills.

It's the most harrowing sick-love song since Guns N' Roses' ' Used to Love Her.' There's little humor to blunt the shock of the hellbent animosity of 'Kim.' What makes it powerful is that, of course, he doesn't just hate her. Things degenerate from there into the mountain of bile reserved for Kim, the mother of his baby and the star of the world's most public ongoing murder fantasy 'Kim' has Eminem screaming at his ex in an insane stream-of-consciousness hate spew. The Rolling Stone album review of The Marshall Mathers LP stated that: This same skit is played as the beginning of "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (a later remastered version of "Just the Two of Us" from Slim Shady EP), indicating the association between the two songs and the direct chronology of events. The skit includes sounds of a dead body being dragged through the grass and thrown into the trunk of a car. The song then ends in a prolonged outro during which the listener can hear a skit called "Mommy", which was released on Slim Shady EP, which was placed before "Just the Two of Us". The final verse ends with Eminem slitting Kim's throat, while screaming "Bleed, bitch! Bleed!". The song continues with Eminem driving frantically through traffic, and stopping in the woods, where Kim tries to run away, but fails.

The chorus of the uncensored version is also different from the album version, with the album version echoing Eminem's voice, the choruses sound different each time in the uncensored version, but the last chorus is similar to the choruses of the album version. "Kim" is the third song by Eminem about Kim, the first being "Searchin" from his debut album Infinite (1996) and the second being " '97 Bonnie & Clyde" from the album. The couple married in 1999 and divorced in 2001, later remarried in 2006 and divorced that same year. They had a daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers, who was born on Christmas Day 1995. Since meeting in 1989, Eminem and Kim Scott have had an on-and-off relationship. Problems playing this file? See media help. The production samples " When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin. "Kim" is a chaotic murder fantasy where Eminem plays both himself and the voice of his wife Kim. On the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP, this song is replaced by a clean version of "The Kids" (an unedited version can be found on the CD single of " The Way I Am", the UK and deluxe editions of The Marshall Mathers LP). Despite its controversial graphic content, it is often highlighted as one of Eminem's most memorable songs. He wrote it, along with " '97 Bonnie & Clyde" (where Eminem and his daughter go to the lake to dispose of Kim's dead body), when he and Kim were having relationship problems and Kim was preventing him from seeing his daughter Hailie.

"Kim" was the first song Eminem recorded for the album, shortly after finishing work on The Slim Shady LP in late 1998. The song reflects intense anger and hatred toward his then-wife Kim Mathers and features Eminem imitating her voice, and ends with him killing Kim and later putting her in the trunk of his car. " Kim" is a song by American rapper Eminem that appears on his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP.
